An-Nisa 154: We raised Mount Tur-Sinai above them as a covenant, and We ordered them to enter the gate while prostrating. We commanded them not to transgress concerning the Sabbath and gave them Our Word.
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Explanation
The misinterpretation
We put Tur on their heads to make them promise (reinforcement), and We told them to bow down and enter through the door. We said not to exceed the limit on Saturday, we took firm promises from them.
The right translation
We raised Mount Tur-Sinai above them as a covenant, and We ordered them to enter the gate while prostrating. We commanded them not to transgress concerning the Sabbath and gave them Our Word.
Explanation
This is the wrong opening in this verse: We erected the Tour on their heads to strengthen their pledge. Also: We took from them a firm promise, verily: We put the Tur on their heads, we told them not to cross the border, we promised them to keep my words and to submit.
They have opened the verses in such a way and distorted them in such a way that they have made Allah (swt) a human mind, that our Lord (swt) could not write the promises that He has taken from people, that He could not write their destiny according to the desires and wishes of people, and that people have changed the destinies that our Lord (swt) has written in the life of the world, going beyond the program of Allah (swt) and not recognizing their promises in the worldly realm.
Just as our Lord addresses people through His Prophets and sends them books, people are free to follow their Prophets or not, and they are free to protect the books sent by our Lord or not. Allah (swt) is always addressing people through His books, His Prophets and His scholars. Here, if our Lord has taken a firm promise from people and they have not kept that firm promise, does it not mean that our Lord has failed to bind people's destinies firmly?
Can our Lord take a word from people and people go beyond what our Lord says? This is where people have distorted the Verses.
If, in return for the promise that our Lord has taken from human beings, human beings do not listen to the promise that they have given to our Lord in the worldly realm and change their promises in their own way, does not Allah (swt), who has taken the promises of human beings as a trust, fail to take care of the trust and betray the trust?
However, whatever desires and wishes each person made to our Lord in Kalu Bela while living in the world, their desires and wishes have become their destiny. No creature can go beyond their destiny and disrupt the program of this realm that our Lord has programmed.
What is said in the video
On page 101 there is verse 154. Verse 154. Yes. "To reinforce their giving of a promise, We raised Tur over their heads, and said to them, 'Enter the gate bowing down.' We said, 'Do not transgress the limit on the Sabbath.' We took a firm promise from them."
So if Allah Almighty took a firm promise from them, He could not bind them to the firm promise. In return for this promise He could not engrave their characters into them. Here Allah Almighty has been given attributes.
Yes. Remember, He says, "We know the secrets of your hearts." Didn't He, within our own will, write our desire and wish, our intent, write our script, our destiny? Well, what does it say here? "We said, 'Do not transgress the limit on the Sabbath.' We took a firm promise from them." So, according to this thing and according to the word too, my own covenant comes before my eyes.
When we made the covenant with Allah Almighty, He shows me the places, at which time you will go. And I say, I like this time, let me come at this time. Allah's mercy: "You, like a commoner," He says, "come at this time, go." Times when the fields are ploughed with pairs of oxen. Times when there are no people. Times when there are few. I'm talking about the covenant. The making of the covenant. No one knows the covenant, the covenant. I said to Allah Almighty, "O my Lord, let me come at this time." Again. "At this time you will slip," He said. "If I am to slip, protect me with Your mercy. And take my life before I slip," I said.
It's my own will, you see. Within this will, is turning back possible, I wonder? Even if you took my head, it's not possible. Because our covenant is like this now. This is written. You can't make me give it up anymore. Even if you cut off my head, even if you hang me in a spiked barrel, you can't make me give it up. Because this is the character, this is the covenant. Allah Almighty gave me this faith. He gave me this character.
What does it say here? He took a firm promise from them, and they too were cursed. What an astonishing thing. If you go on writing translations like this with this mindset, you'll get many a slap from Allah.
Yes.
"Their promises - look, their promises, their promises - for them to keep their promises and to submit, We raised Tur over their heads, and We said, 'Enter that gate only while prostrating,' prostrate. We said, 'Do not transgress the limit on the Sabbath.' We made a promise." Allah Almighty made a promise. There, He sent the Quran to the worlds, He made a promise to us: "If you act on this, you will attain My mercy. If you understand this well and carry out My command to attain My mercy, you will attain My mercy." Look what a beautiful promise He gives. So what is it telling us here too? We said, "Do not transgress the limit on the Sabbath." We made a promise. There, Allah Almighty: "I sent you a prophet.
I sent the Quran too," He says. "This is My promise to you." Whoever follows these, to Paradise; whoever turns his back, having wronged his own soul, would go to the place of Hell. Yes.
How backwards the verses are being explained.
A translation has been written. Who are they? People who did a doctorate, people with titles.
What did the title make him write? He did not write Allah's verses with his reason.
Whatever the title he got taught him, that's what he wrote here. Yes.